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I must have been otherwise engaged at the time.

3 seconds sound clip from the Shadowlands movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:18:22.527 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Well, Jewish, but not Jewish-Jewish, if you can follow that. I mean, I'm a Christian, but I was brought up to be a good atheist.

- An atheist?

- Don't sound so shocked.

- I'm not. I was an atheist once.

- You?

- So we're both lapsed atheists?

- Yes, but I was never a communist.- Why not?

- What do you mean, Why not, Mrs. Gresham?

- Well, I mean, back in '38, it seemed to me there was only two choices. Either you were a fascist, and you conquered the world, or you were a communist and you saved it.

- Is that so?

- I must have been otherwise engaged at the time.

- There's a world worth saving.

- At dawn, on the first of May every year, the choristers from the choir school stand up here and sing to the rising sun. They say they draw quite a crowd.

- What do they sing?

- I can't say I've ever risen early enough to hear them.

- Oh, why not? I mean, it sounds wonderful.

- Well, I don't really go in for seeing the sights.

- Oh! So what do you do? Just walk around with your eyes shut?

[...]

Shadowlands Sound Clip

Shadowlands film poster

Sound bites of the best quotes from the 1993 film Shadowlands.

Actors: Anthony Hopkins (C. S. Lewis), Debra Winger (Joy Davidman), Edward Hardwicke (Warren Lewis), Joseph Mazzello (Douglas Gresham)

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